Candishataka 43

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patyuḥ śivasya pratinayanaṃ locanāntaramiva āviṣkṛtānyonyarūpā gaurī vaḥ
pātu . āviṣkṛtamanyonyasya rūpaṃ yayā . svasya rūpaṃ bhartṛlocanasya, bhartṛlo-
canarūpamātmana iti bhāvaḥ . kiṃbhūtā . mahiṣopaplavena kalpāntakālākula-
miva sakalaṃ lokamālokya pūrvaṃ kālī kṛṣṇā jātā . paścādanantaraṃ vidita-
ditisutā jñātadaityā matsareṇāmarṣeṇa lohitā raktā jātā . kva sati . viṣāṇe
śṛṅge arthānmahiṣasya śliṣṭe lagne sati . punaḥ . mahiṣe pādotpiṣṭe ata eva
parāsau gataprāṇe nipatati sati prāksvabhāvena pūrvaprakṛtyā gaurī avadātā
jātā . evaṃ trirūpā devī tribhirmahādevanayanaistulyeti bhāvaḥ ..
gamyaṃ nāgnerna cendoḥ dinakṛtāṃ dvādaśānāmasahyaṃ
śakrasyākṣaṇāṃ sahasraṃ saha surasadasā sādayantaṃ prasahya .
1. 'muṣitabhiyaḥ'. 2. 'śoṇitasya'. 3. 'rakṣantu tvām'. 4. 'pratinayana
ivāviṣkṛtānyonyabhāvā'. 5. 'jitendum'. 6. 'aśakyam'.
utpātogrāndhakārāgamamiva mahiṣaṃ nighnatī śarma diśyā-
ddevī vo vāmapādāmburuhanakhamayaiḥ pañcabhiścandramobhiḥ .. 42 ..
vāmapādakamalanasvarūpaiḥ pañcabhiścandrairutpātogrāndhakārāgamamiva mahiṣaṃ ni-
dhnatī devī vaḥ śarma diśyāt . kathaṃbhūtam . agnerna gamyaṃ na tiraskaraṇīyam.
indoścandrasya ca na gamyam . sapadi dvādaśānāṃ dinakṛtāmādityānāmasahyam .
surasadasā devasabhayā saha śakrasyākṣṇāṃ sahasraṃ prasahya sādayantaṃ mlānayantam..
dattvā sthūlāntramālāvalivighasahasaddhasmarapretakāntaṃ
kātyāyanyātmanaiva tridaśaripumahādaityadehopahāram .
viśrāntyai pātu yuṣmānkṣaṇamupari 1dhṛtaṃ kesariskandhabhitte-
rbibhrattatkesarālīmalimukhararaṇannūpuraṃ pādapadmam .. 43 ..

May Gaurī protect you—she who displayed each other's forms as if corresponding to each eye of her husband Śiva! She by whom each other's form was displayed: the meaning is, she assumed the form of her husband's eyes, and her husband's eyes assumed her form. Of what sort was she? Seeing the whole world agitated as if at the end of the cosmic age by Mahiṣa's onslaught, she was at first black, Kālī; thereafter, having recognized the son of Diti, she became crimson, red, with wrath, when his horn, that is, Mahiṣa's horn, clung [to her]; and again, when Mahiṣa was crushed under her foot and thus fell lifeless, by her original nature she became fair, radiant, Gaurī. Thus the three-formed Goddess is identical to Mahādeva's three eyes, such is the thought.

Inaccessible to fire and to the moon, unbearable to the twelve suns,
forcibly vanquishing the thousand eyes of Śakra along with the assembly of the gods—
striking down Mahiṣa who was like the arrival of a portentous, fierce darkness,
with the five moons formed of the nails of her lotus-like left foot, may the Goddess grant you bliss! || 42

Striking down Mahiṣa who was like the arrival of a portentous, fierce darkness with the five moons in the form of the nails of her lotus-like left foot, may the Goddess grant you bliss! Of what sort was he? Inaccessible, that is, not to be overcome, by fire; inaccessible also to the moon; instantly unbearable to the twelve suns, the Ādityas; forcibly vanquishing, that is, dimming, the thousand eyes of Śakra along with the assembly of the gods.

Having offered the sacrifice of the great Daitya's body, the enemy of the thirty [gods],
at which the gluttonous beloved wives of the ghosts laughed over the leavings of his thick mass of entrails,
may Kātyāyanī's lotus-foot protect you—held for a moment upon the wall of the lion's shoulder for rest,
bearing the lines of his mane, its tinkling anklets humming like bees! || 43